[ConservativeInPA]

The articles goes on to say, "Kirchhoff’s report led to the creation of a National Security Council directorate to focus strictly on biosecurity and health issues in the case of a pandemic. In 2018, Trump and then-national security adviser John Bolton eliminated the directorate."

It is my understanding that is absolutely false and is fake news.

By the way, exercises like this are never like the real thing. They are models, and they can help identify some short-comings, but will always lack detail because the only way to get detail is from the real thing. Think chaos theory.

[House Atreides]

By the way, exercises like this are never like the real thing. They are models, and they can help identify some short-comings, but will always lack detail because the only way to get detail is from the real thing. Think chaos theory.
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As someone who has participated in a number of similar exercises (Continuity of Operations) they frequently are little more than filling in forms with standard boilerplate.

[Nifster]

He didn’t end the directorate. Trump did merge groups that had repetitive functions As he should jave

[MrRelevant]

You are correct, the man in charge of it has stated as such recently.